HORTICULTUEB 



October 9, 1915 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The October show of fruits and vege- 

 tables held at Horticultural Hall, Bos- 

 ton, on October 2 and 3 was one of the 

 most elegant displays of really high 

 class products of the fruit and vegeta- 

 ble garden ever staged by the Boston 

 growers. The entire list was splendid- 

 ly represented. We have never seen 

 so fine peaches of local production and 

 Jennison's Floral Garden scored a sen- 

 sation with the Ideal strawberry, which 

 we had occasion to mention two weeks 

 ago. The collections of vegetables 

 were arranged with much taste and the 

 exhibits of salad plants were eagerly 

 inspected by a throng of visitors. Dr. 

 F. S. DeLuc won honorable mention 

 for Improved Golden Bantam sweet 

 corn and Jas. S. Bache's Golden Eagle 

 sweet corn was accorded a vote of 

 thanks. 



Blue Hill Nurseries was the only ex- 

 hibitor gaining recognition in the cut 

 flower line. Honorable mention was 

 accorded their seedling Phlox, Mrs. 

 James Wheeler, a pale lavender rose 

 flower. An attractive hardy hybrid 

 aster shown by this exhibitor showed 

 up well — A. Blue Hills (A. laevis X A. 

 turbinellus. 



The nominating committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 announces the following list of candi- 

 dates for the various offices of the 

 Society for the ensuing year, to be 

 filled at the annual meeting November 

 13. 



President, Richard M. Saltonstall; 

 vice-president, Walter Hunnewell; 

 trustees for 3 years, George E. Bar- 

 nard, William C. Endicott, Arthur F. 

 Estabrook, John K. M. L. Farquhar; 

 nominating committee, Arthur F. Esta- 

 brook, Richard Hittinger, John G. 

 Jack, Thomas Roland, John L. Smith. 



In accordance with the By-laws of 

 the Society two weeks are allowed for 

 further nominations should any be de- 

 sired. 



Wm. p. Rich, Secretary. 



NEW JERSEY FLORICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The 10th Annual Dahlia, Fruit and 

 Vegetable Show was held in Orange, 

 N. J., on Monday, Oct. 4th. The show 

 was the greatest success ever held by 

 the society. That the blooms were 

 larger and quite surpassed the N. Y. 

 show was the opinion of many present. 

 W. A. Manda staged a wonderful col- 

 lection of dahlias and carried off many 

 of the prizes. P. W. Popp, gardener to 

 H. Darlington, Marmaroneck, N. Y., 

 took seven 1st prizes in all the large 

 classes. A fine collection of fruit 

 which took 1st prize was staged by 

 William Reid, gardener to Sidney and 

 A. M. Colgate, Orange, N. J. A close 

 second for an equally fine loUection 

 was awarded to Wm. Shillaber, gard. 

 J. P. Sorenson, of Essex Fells, N. J. 

 The miniature gardens were quite a 

 feature and caused quite some interest 

 to the general public. A. J. Moulton 

 was awarded first, gard. Alfred A. 

 Thoma, and the Essex County Country 



Club, gard. Gustaf Christenson, second, 

 although the competition was very 

 close. 



Peter Hauck, Jr., of Bast Orange 

 won 1st with a fine centre piece of 

 dahlias and on 25 show dahlias. 

 Among the other winners were Wm. 

 Barr, Llewellyn Park, Walter Law- 

 rence, Mrs. C. H. Stout of Short Hills 

 and Walter Gray. 



A special silver medal was awarded 

 to Sidney and Austin Colgate for 

 a group of foliage and flowering 

 plants. A fine display of annuals ex- 

 hibited by Wm. Shillaber was awarded 

 a first-class certificate. The vegetable 

 classes were of extraordinary merit. 



The judges were Peter Duff, Alex. 

 Robertson and W. A. Manda. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 CLUB DAHLIA SHOW. 



This club supervised the floral exhi- 

 bit for the Fair Association this sea- 

 son, featuring dahlias as their part of 

 the exhibit. The McCallum Co., S. S. 

 Pennock-Meehan Co. and H. F. Michell 

 Co. all sent liberal displays of dahlias 

 and the Michell Co. sent an assortment 

 of Phlox and other perennials that 

 were much admired. It was due to 

 these firms that we were enabled to 

 fill the space assigned in the artistic 

 manner in which we did. The table 

 was eighty feet long by eight feet wide 

 with a raised table of about eighteen 

 inches in width and that height from 

 the lower table. This was decorated 

 with wild smilax by I. Landis and 

 Thomas Fries in festoons and stringers 

 and made a handsome table for staging 

 the dahlias. 



B. F. Barr added a few palms and a 

 handsome basket of gladioli and chrys- 

 anthemums for the center. Frank 

 Suter being the only one who grows 

 dahlias as a commercial cut flower in 

 this vicinity, made the best local ex- 

 hibit and H. D. Rohrer had a very good 

 collection. A. F. Strickler had some 

 mixed bowls of short-stemned flowers. 



In the amateur class David Roar 

 staged a mighty fine collection and 

 secured all the prizes for this section. 

 Adam Felsinger staged the best flow- 

 ers of the show simply for exhibition. 

 Frank Suter captured the cash prize 

 for florists with the largest collection 

 and the silver cup for sweepstake 

 prize. Master Edward E. Rohrer, a 

 grandson of H. D. Rohrer, captured 1st 

 for three handsome baskets of straw 

 flowers grown and arranged by him- 

 self. The judge was S. S. Pennock. 



In competition with Barr's hand- 

 some basket was a design made of 

 marigolds in a frame two inches deep 

 and sixteen by sixteen in size, made 

 up by using different colors in the 

 style of a patchwork quilt and the 

 wording of the schedule compelled it 

 to have first prize and the basket sec- 

 ond. This sort of thing we hope to be 

 able to eliminate by another year if 

 the Fair officials appreciate our efforts 

 this season enough to let us have a 

 real hand in running the flower end of 

 the Fair. 



Albert M. Herb. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



Tuesday night, October 6, was 

 "dahlia night" and Lawrence K. Pea- 

 cock had just given a lecture. We 

 challenged any of the rose, carnation 

 or chrysanthemum growers to stand 

 up in open meeting and defend the 

 dahlia but no one responded. The 

 dahlia has no more poetry in its make- 

 up than a zinnia has — a turnip of a 

 flower! That's the feeling it gives us. 

 Mr. Manda's man made a good show- 

 ing and Pennock Bros, made a decora- 

 tion. 



Last year's oflicers were re-elected. 

 New committees were appointed for 

 the coming year. A collation was fur- 

 nished by the oflicers and everybody 

 had a good time. Commodore West- 

 cott did some talking; so did Adolph 

 Farenwald. We don't think much of 

 the new essay committee. Your scribe 

 is one of this essay committee, so he 

 ought to know. But seriously, it was 

 a fine meeting. There was a good at- 

 tendance and lots of vim and enthusi- 

 asm. The secretary reported 299 mem- 

 bers. Let's root for 500. Under the 

 able leadership of George Burton we 

 can do lots in the next 12 months. 

 Let's each bring in five more new ones 

 and boost for Philly. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 

 President Harry A. Bunyard has ap- 

 pointed A. M. Henshaw, C. H. Totty 

 and Roman J. Irwin a committee on 

 transportation to Cleveland of those 

 desirous of attending the Flower Show 

 in that city, to take place November 

 10 to 14 next. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The October meeting of the Cincin- 

 nati Florists' Society will be held next 

 Monday evening, October 11th at Ho- 

 tel Gibson. 



The St. Louis Florist Club will hold 

 an important meeting next Thursday 

 afternoon, at 2 o'clock, on the grounds 

 of the Bourdet Floral Co. 



The Third Annual Flower Show of 

 the Holyoke and Northampton Florist 

 and Gardener's Club will be held in 

 Windsor Hall, Dwight street, Holyoke, 

 Mass., on November 3 and 4. There is 

 a liberal prize schedule. 



The new officers of the Minnesota 

 State Florists' Association are as fol- 

 lows: President, W. D. Desmond, Min- 

 neapolis; vice-president. Max Kaiser, 

 St. Paul; secretary, T. C. Rogers, Min- 

 n^aixilis; treasurer, A. Lauritzen, St. 

 Paul ; executive committee, O. J. Ol- 

 son and S. D. Dysinger, St. Paul, and 

 S. S. Cargill and Oscar E. Amundson, 

 Minneapolis. 



New England's big indoor country 

 fair will be held in Mechanic's Hall, 

 Boston, Oct. 23 to 30. The fair will be 

 under the auspices of the fourth bi- 

 ennial Fruit Show Inc., and the Mar- 

 ket Gardeners' Association. Exhibits 

 of fruit, vegetables and flowers will 

 be shown. The floral exhibition will 

 be under the management of Norris F. 

 Comley and liberal prizes will be 

 awarded. 



